be tolerable
Frequency: 8.025.5 per million words
Used to describe a state that is acceptable or endurable.
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Examples (10)
- In August the heat is barely tolerable.
- This wine is really quite tolerable considering it cost only $4 a bottle.
- The pain was just tolerable after the medication.
- I hope the noise from the construction site will be tolerable.
- For some people, long periods of isolation are hardly tolerable.
- The living conditions in the refugee camp were barely tolerable.
- Even though the task is difficult, it is still tolerable if we work together.
- With a good ventilation system, the summer heat can be quite tolerable.
- He worried that the criticism would not be tolerable for his sensitive nature.
- The quality of the budget hotel was acceptable, or rather, just tolerable.